Recently I’ve made an effort to start reading more — articles, blogs, and news included, but mostly nonfiction books. I want to be an avid reader because I realize how much I’m missing out as someone who doesn’t read often. Books offer us an unbounded set of perspectives, stories, and moments in the world that just wouldn’t be possible to experience in the span of one’s real life:

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.” — George R.R Martin

Reading is also a habit that I want to pass on to my kids, and to do that I need to lead by example.

So far I’ve only been semi-successful, and I’ve realized why. I’ll find a book that I’m excited about, read a couple chapters, then forget about it and revisit it in a few days. By that point, I’ll have forgotten what the first two chapters were about and I’ll lose all motivation. That’s why I’ve decided to start writing reading summaries: short notes of chunks of writing that I just read:

1. The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg